On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 10:13:02AM -0800, Deepa Dinamani wrote: > The series is aimed at making input events y2038 safe. > It extends the lifetime of the realtime timestamps in the > events to year 2106. > The series is also a necessary update as glibc is set to provide > 64 bit time_t support for 32 bit binaries. glibc plan is detailed > at https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Y2038ProofnessDesign . > > The series is a result of discussions with Arnd Bergmann and > Dmitry Torokhov at last Plumbers. > > The plan is to deprecate realtime timestamps anyway as they > are not appropriate for these timestamps as noted in the patch > a80b83b7b8 by John Stultz. > > The design also updates the format of the input events read/ written > to the device nodes. This breaks 32 bit interface to the input > events at compile time as preferred by the maintainer. > > The userspace library changes to libevdev, libuinput and mtdev > will be posted to the respective mailing groups for review. Acked-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@xxxxxxxxx> Cheers, Peter > Changes from v3: > * Updated uinput to support monotonic time only > * Addressed review comments > Changes from v2: > * Updated the design to break 32 bit interfaces at compile time. > Changes from v1: > * Updated changes according to review comments. > * Posted userspace library changes that go along with the series. > > Deepa Dinamani (4): > uinput: Use monotonic times for uinput timestamps. > input: evdev: Replace timeval with timespec64 > input: Deprecate real timestamps beyond year 2106 > input: serio: Replace timeval by timespec64 > > drivers/input/evdev.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------- > drivers/input/input-compat.c | 11 +++++----- > drivers/input/input-compat.h | 3 ++- > drivers/input/misc/uinput.c | 5 ++++- > drivers/input/serio/hil_mlc.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++----------------- > drivers/input/serio/hp_sdc.c | 17 ++++++++-------- > drivers/input/serio/hp_sdc_mlc.c | 10 +++++----- > include/linux/hil_mlc.h | 6 +++--- > include/linux/hp_sdc.h | 6 +++--- > include/uapi/linux/input.h | 12 ++++++++++- > 10 files changed, 88 insertions(+), 62 deletions(-) > > > base-commit: b0a84f19a5161418d4360cd57603e94ed489915e > -- > 2.14.1 > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
